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Animals and animal feed

On this page you find rules and regulations for dealing in live animals or animal feed. You have to comply with the Animal Health and Welfare Act (Gezondheids- en welzijnswet voor dieren, GWWD), and you must be entered in a register. 

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  • Rules (10)
  1. Animal welfare requirements

    If you keep animals you must satisfy the welfare requirements laid down in the Animal Health and Welfare Act ...

  2. Authorisation of manufacturers, processors, dealers and hauliers of meat, fish and animal feed

    Producers, processors, vendors or hauliers of meat, fish, meat products, fish products or animal feed must possess ...

  3. CITES permit and CITES certificate

    If you want to own, transport or trade in protected animals or plants (or their parts/products), you must comply ...

  4. Foodstuff hygiene (HACCP)

    All companies that prepare, process, treat or transport food or drink must do so safely. The Dutch statutory ...

  5. Inclusion in the register of traders in live animals and live products

    As a trader in live animals and live products, you must be included in a register kept by the Minister of ...

  6. Phytosanitary and veterinary export certificate

    You will need a veterinary or phytosanitary export certificate to export agricultural goods to non EU countries. The ...

  7. Records of trading in protected animals and plants

    You are required to keep records if you trade in or own certain species of protected animals or plants. These ...

  8. Registration and record keeping by animal feed suppliers

    If you supply food for stable animals directly to an agricultural business that keeps stable animals you must ...

  9. Registration of veterinary drugs and animal feed additives

    In the Netherlands, before a veterinary drug may be produced, kept in stock, supplied or administered, the drug must ...

  10. Reporting and recalling unsafe human and animal feed

    If you discover that you have sold or produced human food or animal feed that is unsafe, you must report what has ...

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